This one came from across the pond. For an older blade it had some pitting, scratches etc. along with cracked scales.
For a change of pace I designed some bone scales that compliment the shape of the blade. Added triple stacks at the red acrylic wedge end and double stacks at the hinge.
Polishing around the gold wash and etch was a bit nerve wracking but it came out just fine. The spine, shaft and back side of the blade is also polished.

Triple stacks I tend to think are nice detail and fills out what otherwise might be a large expanse of scale. Little washers might look lost there. And for how much you're really handling the scales they really don't get in the way.
The scales are genuine Buffalo bone. The little specks you see are a bit of polishing compound in the pores.

That's a great looking Filarmonica, and the scales now do the blade justice, I've always scratched my head in amazement on how desperately poor the original Filly scales are, great looking razor and a square point one of my favourite looking razors I've seen for sometime.

Yeah, the old scales were questionable. This is a solid large blade and the old ones didn't do it justice. Even hanging them on the blade , though they are broken, it just didn't seem right as far as quality let alone the tactile sense you get from plastic scales on a large , heavy blade.
It now has a better "feel" to it. I can't explain it but it just has a solid, no nonsense quality to it. Once you'd just hold it ,, it talks to you. If you know what I mean.
Using it,, well ,, it's just something else again!